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Head of Physiotherapy
- 27 April 2026
- 100%
- Basel
Job summary
Join the Adullam-Stiftung, a leader in geriatric care in Northwest Switzerland. Experience a supportive work environment with outstanding benefits.
Tasks
- Oversee physiotherapy services at two locations with clear structures.
- Lead with empathy, fostering team development and collaboration.
- Ensure high-quality treatment processes and resource management.
Skills
- Degree in physiotherapy with relevant leadership experience required.
- Strong leadership and organizational skills are essential.
- Excellent communication and patient-focused approach needed.
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About the job
The Adullam Foundation is a leading institution for geriatric medicine, therapy, and care in Northwestern Switzerland. It operates a hospital and an affiliated care center each in Basel and Riehen. The approximately 800 employees offer elderly people a regionally unique comprehensive care from acute medicine through rehabilitation to transitional and long-term care. Holistic care at Adullam includes a high quality standard, lived humanity, and great respect for old age.
People are at the center with us – day after day
It is the people who make the difference with us – both our patients and our team. In your role as Head of Physiotherapy, you ensure that patients receive careful and individually tailored physiotherapeutic support and that the team works well together. You lead with clarity, quality awareness, and humanity, combining professional responsibility with everyday practice.
It is the people who make the difference with us – both our patients and our team. In your role as Head of Physiotherapy, you ensure that patients receive careful and individually tailored physiotherapeutic support and that the team works well together. You lead with clarity, quality awareness, and humanity, combining professional responsibility with everyday practice.
Head of Physiotherapy
80 - 100%
| Basel and Riehen
Your tasks – clear, responsible, and appreciative
- Overall responsibility for physiotherapy at two locations, ensuring clear structures and reliable processes
- Leadership with heart and mind: You lead your team with appreciation and clarity and support the continuous personal and professional development of each team member.
- Active proximity to practice: In your leadership role, you are regularly in contact with patients and actively participate in treatment.
- Ensuring and further developing treatment quality: You ensure that the therapeutic process meets our high quality standards and continuously develop it.
- Forward-looking and prudent resource planning and management so that patient needs and team capacities fit well together.
- Actively shaping change processes: You accompany and actively support your team during changes and always keep an eye on the common goal of holistic patient care.
- Trustful collaboration: You work interprofessionally and promote close, respectful cooperation with other areas
- Leadership with heart and mind: You lead your team with appreciation and clarity and support the continuous personal and professional development of each team member.
- Active proximity to practice: In your leadership role, you are regularly in contact with patients and actively participate in treatment.
- Ensuring and further developing treatment quality: You ensure that the therapeutic process meets our high quality standards and continuously develop it.
- Forward-looking and prudent resource planning and management so that patient needs and team capacities fit well together.
- Actively shaping change processes: You accompany and actively support your team during changes and always keep an eye on the common goal of holistic patient care.
- Trustful collaboration: You work interprofessionally and promote close, respectful cooperation with other areas
Your profile
Professional & methodological competence:
- Completed degree in physiotherapy (BSc or MSc); for foreign degrees, SRK recognition and BAB Canton Basel-Stadt.
- Several years of professional experience, ideally in geriatrics, as well as leadership experience and further training in leadership.
- Solid knowledge in quality management and evidence-based practice.
- Experience in change management and organizational development.
- Good understanding of business contexts in healthcare.
Personal skills:
- High integrity, sense of responsibility, and loyalty: You always act in the interest of patients, your team, and your organization.
- Resilience & organizational talent: You are resilient, keep an overview even in demanding times, and ensure a calm, structured, and solution-oriented way of working.
- Independence and decisiveness: You are proactive, act proactively, and make well-considered decisions.
- Empathy and joy in dealing with people: You appreciate respectful exchange with patients, relatives, and colleagues.
Leadership – modern, humane, and development-oriented:
- You lead with clarity, attitude, and genuine appreciation and provide orientation in change.
- You promote trust, personal responsibility, and open, respectful collaboration within the team.
- You continuously develop employees and teams, strengthen their potential, and help them give their best.
- You combine professional excellence with pronounced patient orientation and mindful resource management.
- You actively and jointly shape changes with your team – forward-looking, confident, and on equal footing.
- Completed degree in physiotherapy (BSc or MSc); for foreign degrees, SRK recognition and BAB Canton Basel-Stadt.
- Several years of professional experience, ideally in geriatrics, as well as leadership experience and further training in leadership.
- Solid knowledge in quality management and evidence-based practice.
- Experience in change management and organizational development.
- Good understanding of business contexts in healthcare.
Personal skills:
- High integrity, sense of responsibility, and loyalty: You always act in the interest of patients, your team, and your organization.
- Resilience & organizational talent: You are resilient, keep an overview even in demanding times, and ensure a calm, structured, and solution-oriented way of working.
- Independence and decisiveness: You are proactive, act proactively, and make well-considered decisions.
- Empathy and joy in dealing with people: You appreciate respectful exchange with patients, relatives, and colleagues.
Leadership – modern, humane, and development-oriented:
- You lead with clarity, attitude, and genuine appreciation and provide orientation in change.
- You promote trust, personal responsibility, and open, respectful collaboration within the team.
- You continuously develop employees and teams, strengthen their potential, and help them give their best.
- You combine professional excellence with pronounced patient orientation and mindful resource management.
- You actively and jointly shape changes with your team – forward-looking, confident, and on equal footing.
For further information, Madlen Richter, Head of Medical Cross-Sectional Services, is happy to assist you.
Phone +41 266 6305
Phone +41 266 6305
Our offer
Job ticket TNW at youth rate
Staff restaurant with discounted meals
Paid break with free morning snack
Generous support for external further training
Fair social benefits and attractive vacation regulations
Pension benefits, even with low part-time workloads
Attractive part-time models and annual working hours
External occupational social counseling for employees
Warm welcome culture and appreciative working environment
Internal yoga courses
Home office option
About the company
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- Salary and benefits4.7
- Career opportunities5.0
- Working atmosphere5.0
